Tips for Success in Business

Entrepreneurship is not for the faint of heart. Running a business can be challenging and it takes hard work and perseverance to achieve a high level of success. Many of these entrepreneurs had very similar pieces of business advice to share, based on what’s worked for them when it comes to learning how to start a business.

Richard Branson
Richard Branson one of the world’s most recognizable billionaires, and the founder of Virgin Group, has built an empire comprised of more than 400 companies

“The best businesses come from people’s bad personal experiences. If you just keep your eyes open, you’re going to find something that frustrates you, and then you think, ‘well I could maybe do it better than it’s being done,’ and there you have a business.”

“If you can improve people’s lives, you have a business,”

“people think, ‘well everything’s been thought of,’ but actually, all of the time, there are gaps in the market here and gaps in the market there. ”

“Learn from failure. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn’t a success, welcome to the club!”

“My definition of success? The more you’re actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will feel.”

“Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible.”

“Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way.”

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”

“Take a chance. It’s the best way to test yourself. Have fun and push boundaries.”

“You can’t do a good business with a bad person. Find the right people to work with and you can’t go wrong.”

“Don’t think what’s the cheapest way to do it or what’s the fastest way to do it…think ‘what’s the most amazing way to do it’.”

“The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.”

“To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.”

“My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.”

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”

“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”

“One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.”

“A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.”

“I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.”

Mark Cuban
Mark is an entrepreneur and investor on ABC’s Shark Tank. He’s the owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres, Magnolia Pictures, and is the chairman of the HDTV cable network AXS TV.

“Business happens over years and years. Value is measured in the total upside of a business relationship, not by how much you squeezed out in any one deal.”

“What I always ask people is, First is it something you love to do and second is this something you’re good at?”

“The first thing I’ll tell you, is that just because you don’t see it on Google, doesn’t mean one hundred companies haven’t gone out of business doing the same thing. It hasn’t been done for a reason, because every company that’s tried it, has gone out of business.”

“Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love.”

“One thing we can all control is effort. Put in the time to become an expert in whatever you’re doing. It will give you an advantage because most people don’t do this.”

“Hire people who you think will love working there.”

”Know your core competencies and focus on being great at them.”

”Make the job fun for employees.”

“As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.”

“The beauty of success, whether it’s finding the girl of your dreams, the right job or financial success, is that it doesn’t matter how many times you have failed, you only have to be right once.”

“As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.”

”Customers want to see that you have other customers. When Mark started Micro Solutions he did the work for his first customer free – only charging them the cost of the software. He called it his, “no money down approach to start a business”

Arianna Huffington

the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post. And this has profound consequences—on our health, our job performance, our relationships, and our happiness. author of the recent New York Times best-seller The Sleep Revolution and recently stepped down as Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post to pursue her new wellness startup, Thrive Global, which will offer wellness training and workshops on stress reduction.

“If you’re going to start a business, you need to really love it, because not everybody is going to love it. When The Huffington Post was first launched in 2005, there were so many detractors. I remember a critic who wrote that The Huffington Post was an unsurvivable failure.”

“We say that a good day starts the night before,”

“When you get reviews like that and detractors like that, you have to really believe in your product. When you really believe in your product, you are willing to deal with all the naysayers and persevere.”

“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work,”

Tony Robbins
He is the author of six internationally bestselling books, including most recently New York Times #1 bestsellers UNSHAKEABLE: Your Financial Freedom Playbook and MONEY: Master the Game. Robbins has empowered more than 50 million people from 100 countries through his audio, video and life training programs. He created the #1 personal and professional development program of all time, and more than 4 million people have attended his live seminars.

Tony Robbins is a founder or partner in more than thirty companies in various industries, ranging from technology (virtual reality) and sports (Major League Soccer) to events and hospitality, including the #1 rated resort & spa in the Fijian islands. These companies have combined annual sales of $5 billion.

“Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions.”

“Your past does not equal your future.”

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”

“It’s not knowing what to do; it’s doing what you know.”

“Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.”

“It’s what you practice in private that you will be rewarded for in public.”

“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”

“Leaders spend 5 percent of their time on the problem & 95 percent of their time on the solution. Get over it & crush it!”

“The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.”

“If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.”

“Every problem is a gift–without problems we would not grow.”

“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”

Guy Kawasaki

an American marketing specialist, author, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist.Chief Evangelist of Canva, the author of thirteen books including the acclaimed Art of the Start, which has been hailed as a weapon of mass creation by entrepreneurs around,an American marketing specialist, author, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist. the world.

”Live in the present, work for the future.”

“My best business tip is to focus on the prototype. Don’t focus on your pitch deck, business plan or financial projections.”

”Don’t sweat your first job. ”

”Make your boss look good”

”Enjoy your family and friends before they are gone”

”Great companies start because the founders want to change the world… not make a fast buck.”

”When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.”

”At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I’m picking the former, although I would not mind both.”

”The jewelry business is a very, very tough business – tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.”

”Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.”

”Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.”

”Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.”

”A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.”

”Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.”

Tara Gentile
Tara works with business owners to help them transition into more profitable business models, more compelling messaging, and more influence. She’s featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Inc, and DailyWorth for the work she’s done on TaraGentile.com.
Tara is an entrepreneur and prolific business strategist. She teaches small and medium sized business owners how to truly unlock their potential and connect with their customers.

“I’ve learned to really think about who I actually want to sell to, instead of some generalization or profile of who might buy from me. Every time I’ve named individual people and created content with them in mind, those people have actually worked with me. No solicitation, just genuine connection by tailor-making what works best for them. Of course, I’ve also met many other amazing people who needed the same things.”

“They wait to get started. They wait until they have more information, more experience, more, more money, and a more perfect version of whatever they have created.”

“All that waiting means they’re not really learning. When you’re an entrepreneur, the best way to learn is to do something, to put your idea into someone’s hands, or to talk to the people you want to serve. Stop waiting and do… something.”

Ankur Nagpal

Ankur is the Founder and CEO at Teachable, the premier online course building platform that allows online educators to build beautiful course websites, self-host content, control the branding, student data, and pricing all from one place.

“The most painful mistake I see people making repeatedly, particularly with their first project is striving for perfection over getting it done.”

“Weeks turn into months, months into years. As a result, whatever they are trying to launch isn’t out there gaining traction in the marketplace because of the fear of being perfect.”

“The biggest reason why most people fail is that they never even get to their launch”